Fifty years in industry, thirty-five studying Lean. Transformation has to be led from the top — I've done it twice, from the ground up.
Organizations where Sanjeev has led or advised Lean transformations — as a full-system implementation, a turnaround, or CEO-level advisory. Client names are withheld by request; the marks below are shared with permission.
Full Lean-system implementation, turnarounds, CEO advisory, and speaking. Training happens only inside an engagement.
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Throughput time reduced 96–97% — generally regarded as India's first end-to-end lean factory transformation.
Toyota's visiting team, on seeing the factory: “We never expected to see such a factory in India.”
A five-year-old joint venture that had never shipped a machine. Six months later, swamped with orders from Asia and Europe.
A turnaround visited by the Indonesian President and the American Ambassador.
One of the top total lean enterprise turnarounds.
DR. JEFFREY LIKER — author of The Toyota Way “I am sinking.” Shop-floor teaching cut lead times 84–92%; the company broke even in six months.
AI can enhance Lean tools and analytics, but leadership, culture and people development remain fundamentally human responsibilities. Lean is not primarily a problem-solving system — it is a people-development system.
Lean manufacturing succeeds when every employee owns both execution and continuous improvement, eliminating waste through standards, problem-solving, and kaizen culture. The root cause of failure: jobs are not defined to include continuous improvement and human development.
Portland, OR and Bangalore, India — open to America, India, Asia, and Europe.